Kern County Obituaries
Hill C. McGinnis
Submitted by Don Stowell; 13 Feb 2008
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Source Unknown; 21 Dec 1944
TEST PILOT MEETS HIS DEATH
Marine Second Lieutenant Hill C. McGinnis, of Monroe, Va., was killed late Wednesday
afternoon last when a Corsair fighter plane which he was testing went: into a flat
spin and crashed 10 miles east of here in the Mojave desert.
Lieutenant McGinnis was a test pilot attached to the headquarters squadron of a
fighter group at the Marine Corps Air Station here. His mother, Mrs. C. W. McGinnis,
resides in Monroe.